“Jargon” Quotes of “Digital Master” Nov. 2020

"Digital Master” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” 

It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management. It also instructs the digital workforce on how to shape a game-changing digital mindset and build the right set of digital capabilities to compete for the future. Here is a set of “Jargon” quotes in “Digital Master.”


Business "Strategy" has an aura of mystique around it and has been made complicated by business jargon and experts, and strategic planning is usually something that is formed by upper-level management or the Strategic Planning department without input from those who will execute the strategy.

Digital CIOs are business polyglots who can speak different business dialects such as business, IT, architecture, finance jargon, etc, in order to act as a business interpreter to bridge the gaps.

Because different stakeholders of the business have different concerns about IT for meeting their specific needs, thus, CIOs should be flexible and adjust the lingo to suit the audience, drop technical jargon and use common business language, to ensure all parties involved are at the same page of change and strategy implementation.

Humans have broken the science into many disconnected ‘sciences” - with each having its own cryptic jargon - to prevent others, uninitiated ones to comprehend. But you cannot simply push experts in various disciplines into a room, lock the door and pray for a result. Each of the experts will only produce dots from his/her field in their specific jargon, with nobody trying to connect these dots.

Traditional IT organizations are often running in a functional silo to speak the technical jargon business couldn’t understand.

Traditional IT organizations are often running in a functional silo to speak the technical jargon business couldn’t understand; now with IT consumerization and other digital technology trends, IT is at the crossroad to either move up the maturity ladder, to become a value generator and business partner, or continue to be considered as support function or cost center.

Language is a method of communicating thoughts. IT leaders and professionals are polyglots who often need to understand IT jargon, business language, as well as multiple computing/programming languages in order to initiate audience tailored communications.

Traditional IT organizations are often running in a functional silo to speak the technical jargon business couldn’t understand; now with IT consumerization and other digital technology trends, IT is at crossroad to either move up the maturity ladder, to become a value generator and business partner, or continue to be considered as support function or cost center.

If you stand alone in front of the Board and try and sell ‘tech’ in any language, particularly in “IT” jargon, and then you deserve to fail.

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